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Best time to visit
Ayers Rock.

May leads for comfortable weather in Ayers Rock: typically 24.3°C by day, 9.2°C at night, with 12 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high24.3°C

Typical low9.2°C

Rain in May12 mm

Comfort

May

May · August · April

88climate match

Beach

March

March · April · November

79climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · May

91climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 37 against May’s 88 — days average 38.4°C, 14° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

3738.4° / 23°

Feb

4237° / 22.3°

Mar

5734.5° / 19.5°

Apr

8030° / 14.7°

May

8824.3° / 9.2°

Jun

7120.3° / 5.5°

Jul

7020.8° / 4.5°

Aug

8323.8° / 6°

Sep

7629.1° / 10.9°

Oct

7132.6° / 15.1°

Nov

5635° / 18.5°

Dec

4436.5° / 21°

Monthly climate evidence for Ayers Rock — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	38.4°C	23°C	30 mm	3.8	13 h 33	37	Strong coverage
February	37°C	22.3°C	44 mm	3.2	12 h 59	42	Strong coverage
March	34.5°C	19.5°C	30 mm	2.1	12 h 18	57	Strong coverage
April	30°C	14.7°C	18 mm	1.9	11 h 32	80	Strong coverage
May	24.3°C	9.2°C	12 mm	1.5	10 h 54	88	Good coverage
June	20.3°C	5.5°C	18 mm	1.6	10 h 34	71	Strong coverage
July	20.8°C	4.5°C	17 mm	1.9	10 h 42	70	Strong coverage
August	23.8°C	6°C	5 mm	1.2	11 h 14	83	Strong coverage
September	29.1°C	10.9°C	8 mm	1.4	11 h 59	76	Strong coverage
October	32.6°C	15.1°C	25 mm	3.2	12 h 44	71	Strong coverage
November	35°C	18.5°C	35 mm	4	13 h 23	56	Strong coverage
December	36.5°C	21°C	49 mm	5	13 h 43	44	Strong coverage

Records at YULARA AERO, 1983–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	46.8°C3 Jan 2019	12.7°C30 Jan 1986	45 mm17 Jan 2022	84 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2009	39
February	45.8°C17 Feb 1992	12.1°C7 Feb 2012	104 mm20 Feb 2000	349 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2019	39
March	45.3°C1 Mar 2025	8.0°C25 Mar 2001	87 mm31 Mar 1988	202 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1987	39
April	39.6°C12 Apr 1985	1.3°C28 Apr 1996	65 mm8 Apr 2014	96 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 2019	39
May	35.7°C3 May 1997	1.1°C24 May 2012	42 mm21 May 2013	110 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2018	39
June	36.4°C29 Jun 1999	-2.7°C28 Jun 2018	83 mm12 Jun 2001	147 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 2006	39
July	31.1°C31 Jul 2008	-3.6°C14 Jul 2002	37 mm15 Jul 2001	78 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2012	41
August	37.5°C30 Aug 2024	-2.3°C7 Aug 2018	16 mm30 Aug 2016	29 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2013	39
September	38.7°C28 Sep 2000	-1.0°C5 Sep 1984	32 mm24 Sep 2024	72 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1995	39
October	42.3°C31 Oct 1995	3.7°C17 Oct 2016	70 mm14 Oct 2010	116 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2013	39
November	45.2°C28 Nov 2020	6.5°C2 Nov 1994	73 mm3 Nov 2009	104 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1996	40
December	47.1°C24 Dec 2019	9.9°C12 Dec 1995	84 mm26 Dec 2016	220 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 2025	40

Typical days per month at YULARA AERO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	29	0	1
February	27	26	0	1
March	29	26	0	<1
April	26	15	0	<1
May	12	3	0	<1
June	3	<1	1	<1
July	5	<1	3	<1
August	12	2	<1	<1
September	23	14	0	<1
October	28	21	0	<1
November	29	25	0	1
December	30	28	0	1

How often, not how much — every day in YULARA AERO’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	88%	12%	4%	9%	36.6–41.1°C
February	89%	11%	3%	8%	34.9–39.6°C
March	93%	7%	3%	7%	32.4–37.2°C
April	95%	5%	1%	4%	28.0–32.0°C
May	84%	6%	2%	5%	22.3–26.3°C
June	52%	6%	2%	2%	19.1–21.8°C
July	56%	5%	2%	2%	18.6–22.8°C
August	80%	3%	<1%	1%	22.3–26.2°C
September	93%	5%	<1%	4%	26.1–30.9°C
October	90%	10%	3%	9%	30.1–35.4°C
November	85%	15%	4%	12%	32.2–37.4°C
December	85%	15%	4%	11%	34.9–38.8°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1985Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 35-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 2001.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8640375
NOAA station: ASN00015635 · YULARA AERO
Station distance: 20.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -25.36°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from YULARA AERO is what differs

Yulara→Mutitjulu→

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Ayers Rock.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.